'This is the story of how books saved one man's life - twice. John Sutherland's love affair with reading began during an unsettled childhood after his father was killed in the war and his mother abandoned him. Books continued to sustain him through dark times when he developed a dangerous addiction to drink. The Boy Who Loved Books is a personal account of the profound changes that took place during the twentieth century, as well as what it was like to be a grammar-school boy, a national-service man and a redbrick graduate during this period.'--BOOK JACKET.
